List of legendary creatures (K)


  1. Kabouter – Little people that live underground, in mushrooms, or as house spirits
  2. Kachina – Nature spirit
  3. Kahaku – Little people and water spirits
  4. Kajsa – Wind spirit
  5. Kalakeyas – Descendants of Kala
  6. Kallikantzaroi – Grotesque, malevolent spirit
  7. Kamaitachi – Wind spirit
  8. Kamatayan – Philippine counterpart of Death
  9. Kami – Nature spirit
  10. Kamikiri – Hair-cutting spirit
  11. Kanbari-nyūdō – Bathroom spirit
  12. Kangla Sha – Dragon Lion in the Kangla Palace
  13. Kanbo – Drought spirit
  14. Kanedama – Money spirit
  15. Kappa – Little people and water spirit
  16. Kapre – Malevolent tree spirit
  17. Karakoncolos, also in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia known as Karanđoloz – Troublesome spirit
  18. Karakura – Male night-demon
  19. Karasu-tengu – Tengu with a bird's bill
  20. Karkadann – One-horned giant animal
  21. Karkinos – Giant crab
  22. Karura – Eagle-human hybrid
  23. Karzełek – Little people and mine spirits
  24. Kasa-obake – Animated parasol
  25. Kasha – Cat-like demon which descends from the sky and carries away corpses
  26. Kashanbo – Kappa who climb into the mountains for the winter
  27. Katawa-guruma – Woman riding on a flaming wheel
  28. Katsura-otoko – Handsome man from the Moon
  29. Katallan – Man-eating giant
  30. Kaukas – Nature spirit
  31. Kawa-uso – Supernatural river otter
  32. Kawa-zaru – Smelly, cowardly water spirit
  33. Kayeri - Mushroom-like monster
  34. Ke'lets – Ogre or evil spirit
  35. Keelut – Hairless dog
  36. Kee-wakw – Half-human half-animal cannibalistic giant
  37. Keibu Keioiba – Man with the body of a human but the head of a tiger
  38. Kekkai – Amorphous afterbirth spirit
  39. Kelpie – Malevolent water horse
  40. Ker – Female death spirit
  41. Kesaran-pasaran – Mysterious, white, fluffy creature
  42. Keukegen – Disease spirit
  43. Keythong – Wingless griffin
  44. Khalkotauroi – Bronze-hoofed bulls
  45. Khyah – Fat, hairy ape-like creature
  46. Kigatilik – Night-demon
  47. Kholomodumo – Gluttonous monster that was one of the first beasts of creation
  48. Kijimunaa – Tree sprite from Okinawa
  49. Kijo – She-devil
  50. Kikimora – Female house spirit
  51. Killmoulis – Ugly, mischievous mill spirit
  52. Kinnara – Human-bird hybrid
  53. Kin-u – Bird
  54. Kirin – Japanese Unicorn
  55. Kishi – Malevolent, two-faced seducer
  56. Kitsune – Fox spirit
  57. Kitsune-Tsuki – Person possessed by a fox spirit
  58. Kiyohime – Woman who transformed into a serpentine demon out of the rage of unrequited love
  59. Klabautermann – Ship spirit
  60. Knocker (folklore) – Little people and mine spirits
  61. Knucker – Water dragon
  62. Kobalos – Goblin like thieves and tricksters
  63. Kobold – Little people and mine or house spirits
  64. Kodama – Tree spirit
  65. Kofewalt – House spirit
  66. Ko-gok – Hideous monster
  67. Kokakuchō – Ubume bird
  68. Komainu – Protective animal
  69. Konaki-jiji – Infant that cries until it is picked up, then increases its weight and crushes its victim
  70. Konoha-tengu – Bird-like creature
  71. Konrul – Bird that is reborn
  72. Koro-pok-guru – Little people
  73. Korrigan – Little people and nature spirits
  74. Koshchei – Villainous figure that is unkillable, usually by hiding "his death" inside objects to protect it
  75. Koto-furunushi – Animated koto
  76. Kraken – Sea monster
  77. Krasnoludek – Little people nature spirits
  78. Krasue – Vampiric, floating head
  79. Krampus – Christmas Devil who punishes badly-behaved children
  80. Kting Voar – Snake eating cattle
  81. Kuarahy Jára – Forest spirit
  82. Kubikajiri – Female corpse-chewing graveyard spirit
  83. Kuchisake-onna – Vengeful ghost of a woman mutilated by her husband
  84. Kuda-gitsune – Miniature fox spirit
  85. Kudan – Human-faced calf which predicts a calamity before dying
  86. Kui – One-legged monster
  87. Kujata – Cosmic bull
  88. Kukudhi – Female demon who spreads sickness
  89. Kukwes – Large, hairy, greedy, human-eating bipedal monsters whose scream can kill
  90. Kulshedra – Drought-causing dragon
  91. Kumakatok – Death spirits
  92. Kumiho – Fox spirit
  93. Kun – Giant fish
  94. Kupua – Shapeshifting tricksters
  95. Kurabokko – Guardian spirit of a warehouse
  96. Kurage-no-hinotama – Jellyfish which floats through the air as a fireball
  97. Kurma – Second avatar of Vishnu in the form of a Turtle
  98. Kurupi – Wild man and fertility spirit
  99. Kushtaka – Shapeshifting "land otter man"
  100. Kye-ryong – Chicken-lizard hybrid
  101. Kyourinrin – Animated scroll or paper
  102. Kyūbi-no-kitsune – Nine-tailed fox
  103. Kyūketsuki – Vampire king